I've been unable to sleep tonight. Pain is the reason. Knee and leg again. Same old.
It's my right side. The pain is like deep aching tiredness, not a pain I am overly familiar with. I am far more familiar with the sheer white lightning zing of nerve pain.
There is a swollen nob on one side of my knee and a bruise on the other side. I might have hit it with something, in the flurry of activity to get ready for Pet Day and the booth.
Tonight, on my bed, unable to sleep, I raised both legs straight up to massage my sore knee. I noticed something right off. My left leg is shorter than the other leg. Not just by a little. Looks like about an inch or more than an inch shorter. I knew from birth my left leg was shorter than my right one. But I think it's more extreme now.
I got to thinking 'I bet that's causing a lot of my knee and leg problem.' I'm going to get some lifts for my left shoe to raise it up some. I just read online that a leg length discrepancy can be either anatomical or functional and there's a way to tell which you have, called "the Deerfield test". I guess leg length discrepancies can cause all sorts of problems in your lower or upper body or both.
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If it neurological pain, has anyone evet suggested neurontin or a similar med? Would your plan cover it? I deal with pain every day (NOT fun!) but that med did not work for me but I am told by others (and I do not mean oth docs but patients at the pain Clinic) that it has worked wonders for neurological probs. I think it depnds very much on the kind of pain - how it was caused - but maybe your doctor could give you a sample p try. I always try to give my patient a sample (except for anti cancer meds bec of their toxicity and the process of ascertaining which one is effective for the particular pt) so they do not have to spend money tto find out of a certain med will help them. Why pay for a dispebsing fee and a med that turns out not to work! Yesterday, I have a pt 30 tabs of prevecid bec she has an ulcer (which anyone with a child with cancer might have and she tested neg for H pylori, the bacteria that has been associated with ulcers) and one would have thought I gave her a $million! Turns out it works well for her so I am going to keep helping her bec it is v. expsenive - even in Canada- for her. It'll be cheaper once generic but I've already contacted the drug co about them helping her in one of their programs in providing meds for people with no catastrophic drug cverage plan.
ReplyDeleteYou might do that too - neurontin is not that expensive though. And if ou do take NSAIDs like Naproxin Sodium which is OTC in the US (still not here in Cabada since it DOES affect the stomach , speaking of ulcers) but if OK if taken with milk say once or twice a day (ie evey 12 hrs). The ASA, NSAIDs are good for arthitic pain since they are not as toxic to the liver as is aceamenophen, a med I dtest - tho ASA and its ilk should NOT be administered to children under 12 because they can leasd to a rare illness caised Reye's (pro. R- eye (like the eye in your head)'s Syndrome. I served on a comittee in my Prd residency with the man who helped to discover this link so that was exciting - the article was 1st publshed in the Lancet.